Unfortunately, I woke up rather sickola on Sunday.  Seems like I picked up a bit of a stomach bug as I was sick all morning.  Early in the afternoon, Mike and I were both rather hungry, but I really didn’t have the energy or desire to make anything.  I did, however, go all out and make a big bowl of instant mashed potatoes.  I didn’t even have the drive to put it on plates so out to the couch I went with our lunch in hand:

Grab a spoon and dig in!  Rather gourmet, don’t ya think?

Abby seemed to feel like me that day, as she spent most of the day like this:

Mind you, it could just be because she’s a cat.

We watched Hunger Games in the afternoon and called it an early night.

I had my aviation medical today and I’m happy to report I’m all good to go until next time.  It was my first time with this doctor, as my previous aviation medical doc retired recently.  He was very nice and I’ll certainly have no issues going back to him for my future renewals.  I just hope my token works in the exit machine-thing next time, as I was kinda trapped in the parking lot after my appointment.

Today’s symptoms:  Still not feeling great since my little weekend sickola spell.  However, I feel a little better today than yesterday.  I plan on feeling even better tomorrow.  Hoping to take some vacation time in the afternoon.  Nothing big and exciting to report on the MS front – same ol’ symptoms, different day.  It’s all good though!

 Ok, on a happy note, life is still awesome.  On Sunday, Mike and I went to breakfast with some of our Recreational Aircraft Association folks.  I thought Donkay would like to join us.  He whispered something into Sandy’s ear at one point:

And was launched across the table on more than one occasion.  Hey, it’s an aviation group and flying is a good thing!

I felt like fries for breakkie so asked for a basket.  Wow, a basket is right:

At least I had dinner the next night as well.  I think Dave had some leftovers too.  He decided to order the fish and chips (it was after 11:00, so not exactly breakkie).  Check out this enormous mound of noms:

I think he ordered the breaded whale.  The food at Iggy’s Pub and Grub in Fonthill is great – I definitely recommend it.

After noms, we headed over to Leon’s so Mike could check out some furniture for his new place.  He passed out on the bed he decided to buy.  I covered him with a flyer to make him look a little more presentable to the public:

Geesh!

I was a total nut during the two and a half hours we were there.  I kinda felt bad for Chuck, who was helping us out.  I asked him for a reinforced bed frame to support my morbid obesity, called him “Chucky Boy” at one point, and had a really hard time not making faces while the kid wandering around us was horking and hacking all over everything.  I even got him to pose with me for a pic:

Tormenting people is fun!  The best part was Mike’s the one who spent all the money yet I was given this adorable Leons toy van!

Yup, life is good!

I think the plan tonight is to get in my jammies and crawl into bed to read.  I’m sure I’ll feel better tomorrow.  I kinda have to – we’re having our RAA Christmas dinner at the Mandarin tomorrow evening.  Slurp!

Today’s symptoms:  see above! 

Had some decent weather the other night so I went up for a quick night flight.

 

I just flew over to Grimsby and did five super quick touch and goes there.  A full circuit usually takes about five minutes to complete, however, I ended up doing all five in less than fifteen minutes.  I was in a bit of a rush as the Flying Club was closing at 6:00 and I took off around 5:10.

I was surprised how busy the QEW was:

And a shot coming back into St. Catharines:

It was a nice flight and I’m all current with my night rating again (need to do six take offs and landings within six months to remain current).

Had a rather nice surprise today.  It was the one year anniversary for Mike and I (clearly he has a high tolerance level!), so he said he was taking me somewhere special.  I had no idea where we were going, just that it was in Toronto.  I had a few ideas of where it was, one of which being Medieval Times.  I had been there about 20 years ago and loved it.  I was so thrilled when I found out that we were going tonight.  Mike bought us awesome seats too – front row in the centre.  I really wish I brought my good camera, but only had my phone.  The pics I took aren’t great – guess we’ll have to go back with the camera.

Here’s a pic of “Sir Richard.”  This dude was awesome – was great at getting the crowd fired up and was quite amusing as well:

For some strange reason (since I love meat), I decided to get the vegetarian noms.  Very good, glad I did.  I swiped some of Mike’s chicken, so at least I got my protein.

We were cheering for the red and yellow dude:

When I was there the first time, they had one “evil” knight (green), but now there are no bad dudes.  Also, I controlled myself this time and didn’t yell “Kill the king!”

The horse demonstrations were amazing (too bad my pictures aren’t):

This fella went airborne:

The horse actually yelled “Weeeeeeee!!!!” while he was in the air!

The show was amazing and we definitely want to go back.  After the show, Mike took my pic with Sir Richard, the King and the Princess:

We got home just after 8:00 tonight and were greeted by four naked ladies in my apartment:

And then Mya decided to stare at the back of the couch.  Dork:

Yup, four weirdos and one Christmas rat:

Tomorrow we’ll be going to breakfast with a bunch of peeps from our Recreational Aircraft Association, then Mike wants to check out some furniture at good ol’ Leons.

Today’s symptoms: For some reason, over the last week I’ve been experiencing much more pain than normal.  It’s all over my whole body too – it literally feels like my bones are being crushed.  I had a little pep talk with my bod and told it I’ve had enough of it’s silliness and to smarten up and feel better by tomorrow.  Geesh.

Can’t wait to see the movie again!

Jan gotz me some awesome stuff too, sticking with the orange theme.

Mike took me out to Kelseys for my birthday dinner.  Had an awesome steak dinner and he had a massive hamburger:

When we got home, Boo was posing with my Dusty pillow:

Meanwhile, Pinky decided to knock my hoodie off the dresser and make it into her tent:

My cats are dorks.  Well, I kinda am too.  One night, Abby had her little leg up in the air and was licking her belly.  I wanted to help her out so I held her leg up for her for almost five minutes:

We might as well stick with the cat theme for a bit.  Pinky was really enjoying watching a World’s Dumbest show that was on.  Pawed at the people and cars:

Meanwhile, Boo got all snuggly under her blanket.  Mya decided she would share in her kitty warmth, and joined her:

For my last two birthday’s, I had medical tests done.  Last year was a yucky bladder scope and the year before that was two MRI’s.  I had one done during the work day in Niagara Falls.  When I got back to work, I got a call from the hospital stating they missed a series and I had to go back and get it redone.  This year I was supposed to have my Tysabri infusion.  I said No way! and scheduled it for the next day.  I decided to be a dork and bring in one of my joyous Dusty toys for comfort and comical relief:

Last night there was a pot luck dinner at the St. Catharines Flying Club.  Great turn out, company and noms.  The cat at the Club has clearly got himself ready for winter with around 23 pounds of cat fat:

When we got back to my apartment, Mike and I decided to play some Black Ops on the Xbox.  After a couple rounds, we noticed something that I’ve never seen before.  Pinky and Abby (who are total enemies), sat together on my cable receiver.  I don’t understand how one minute they can get along and the next they’re back-pawing each other:

Another oddity happened at the same time time.  Mya managed to squish herself between the wall and side table:

I tried to coax her out and there was a bit of an incident.  (I discretely covered her naughty bits):

Ugh!

Mike stayed over tonight and after a long day of shopping and Xbox playing, I made him this gourmet, red neck dinner of turkey hot dogs speared with spaghetti:

My mother is so proud of her daughter’s exceptional cooking skills.  Look out, Ramsey!

Today’s symptoms:  Not feeling too bad.  Some more than tolerable aches and pains in my forearms and hands, plus a fairly bad headache, but overall, it was a pretty good day symptom-wise!

 

It was really nice to be up in the air again.  I hadn’t flown for about three weeks.

Mike and I went to an Ice Dogs hockey game on Saturday.  They were playing Erie (in the dark blue).  There were a few fights:

The Ice Dogs didn’t do too well that night, as I think the final score was 5-0.  Ugh!  That was Mike’s first hockey game ever, so that in itself made it a little more exciting.

When back from the game, some of the kitties got a bath.  Here I am trying to make Abby feel a little better, as baths are not fun (according to my cats):

I was so glad the weather was perfect on Sunday.  During a Bingo Run through the 99′s (female aviation group) this past summer, Mike and I won a few great prizes.  One was an air to air photo by Peter Lubig, a professional aviation photographer.  I was to meet him at an airport up in Barrie, so Mike and I took off from St. Catharines around 8:30 on Sunday morning.

We drank our Timmies on the way:

Finding the small airport was a little tricky, but the runway finally came into view:

Peter flew in around 10:30.  He had his friend (the pilot while Peter took the pics) meet us at the airport before he arrived, which was rather nice.  Peter showed me some of the pics he took recently with his awesome camera:

After discussing how the photo shoot would work, we headed back up.  I took off first and Peter came up behind us on the right:

A little closer…

A little closer…

Hello!  It was so much fun to fly so close to another plane.  It’s much harder than it looks!  Total blast though.  He was shooting for about 20 minutes.  We stayed fairly close to the airport.  After a a few turns and different positions in the air, the photo shoot was done and we parted ways:

I’m so excited to see how the pictures turned out!

There were no washrooms at the Springwater Airport where we took off from, so we decided to land at Brampton to use the facilities and get some noms.  I thought it would be good if Vyctor had a drink too:

Soon after, we took off from the always busy Brampton Airport:

Heading south of Toronto, we noticed a rather large plume of smoke.  Kinda sad to see it was a building – hoping it was just a brush fire:

Getting closer to home, I think some of the fumes from the factories in Hamilton seeped into the plane and subsequently our brains.  We started to feel a little “off”:

Fortunately, the effects didn’t last too long and we safely made it back to St. Catharines:

What an amazing day.  I’ll certainly show my bloggers how the air to air pictures turned out!

Back at my apartment, my kitties all decided that they wanted a drink from the tap in the bathroom.  What the heck?

They’re so weird.  Pinky did something unique when I got home from work today.  She sat on the stuffed sheep and stuck her front paws on the heater:

It’ll be interesting to see if she ever does this again.

Today’s symptoms: Needless to say, I was quite fatigued today after my long but awesome day yesterday.  Typically when the fatigue is worse, so are the rest of the symptoms, such as pains in my hands and arms, headache and just generally feeling blah.  Tomorrow will be better!

 

We had a pretty good turn out and listened to a great presentation on the Silver Dart replica, which some of the RAA folks built.  It’s now in the Alexander Graham Bell Museum in Baddeck, NS.

On Friday of last week, I had my joyous Tysabri infusion.  Went pretty well.  I usually have to get poked a couple of times because my veins don’t like to cooperate.  Mind you, we applied heat for the second needle stick and it went in great.  I was so thrilled after the hour long infusion that I tweaked this dummies nip on the way to the washroom:

Ok, so the nurses there think I’m a little whacked.  It’s all good though!  I kinda proved to Mike the other day how whacked I really am with the little pressie I made him.  I have no idea why I made this or what he’s supposed to do with it, but it’s a sheep on a stick:

I even took the time to reinforce the sheep with a cardboard backing.  Mike’s face was rather amusing when I gave it to him.

Jan had a similar look of shock when I sent her this picture:

She’s been looking everywhere for Cream of Wheat in the instant packages.  I finally found some and on sale, so I bought a couple boxes.

This weekend, the kitties got their dreaded baths.  Poor Pinky looked a little contorted while I was cleaning her neck:

As usual, Abby was pretty quiet.  I gave her a smooch when she let out a tiny mew though:

Mya didn’t need a bath so she stood in the bathroom sink, getting a drink:

Once bath time was over, Boo decided to create an igBoo and climbed inside to stay warm:

Something kinda creepy happened at my apartment the other day.  Actually, this is the second time.  The woman who moved in across the hall recently put up a scarecrow wreath that kinda looked like mine.  We put them up about a day apart too.  This past weekend, we both put up our Halloween decor.  Here’s mine:

And hers:

Crazy minds think alike?

On the theme of Halloween decorations, we had a pumpkin brought into our office, done by a co-worker’s husband.  It’s our director:

Pretty awesome – looks just like him!

And last but not least for today’s blog, here is one of Mike’s cats trying to figure out a Rubix Cube:

Opposable thumbs would probably help.

Today’s symptoms:  Not feeling well today and had to go home early.  Very fatigued plus my over month-long sinus infection is progressively getting worse.  I’m really looking forward to seeing my GP on Thursday to get some meds for it.  I would have gone in sooner but you can’t be on antibiotics while getting a Tysabri infusion.

Speaking of planes, I got to see one of my Christmas pressies from my mother.  I really wanted a framed posted of Dusty from the Disney movie Planes.  I downloaded the perfect pic of him, then sent it to Wal-Mart to get a large canvass  poster made.  Turned out perfectly:

Can’t wait to see it up on my wall.  Right now it’s in my closet, ready to be wrapped/bagged for Christmas.

I was in a training course at work last week.  It was only a day long.  I decided to give myself a ghetto name, which I wrote on my name plaque.  It was Le-a.  The instructor said “Ok Lea, or Leah, or….”  I said the dash isn’t silent so it’s pronounced Ledasha.  It was then requested by some other folks in the class that I give them ghetto names as well:

By the end of the day, everyone had a new name.  The last one was Latoya Margarita.

Continuing with work, I spoke with a co-worker today who gave me a good laugh.  She said that she went over the river to do some shopping and tried on some shoes.  She had a little incident in which she actually fell off the shoe.  One would think it would be a little stumble – perhaps a tad embarrassing.  That wasn’t enough for her – she wanted to go all out.  She actually broke her foot!  Being a true shopper, she didn’t want to stop and take time to go to the hospital.  Well, she did a WEEK later!  Ugh!  Of course, wandering around on it for a week kinda made it much worse.  Later in the conversation she said “I’m not the brightest bulb.”  My response was “Well, you did fall off a shoe and break your foot!”  Tee hee.  As bad as I felt that she had this experience, telling me about it and having a laugh really brightened my day.

I was a little shocked when my friend texted me after work tonight and asked if I noticed the building across the street from our office.  I went out the back door today so didn’t see anything out front.  Wow:

Not much to it anymore.  Used to be a rather nice, two storey large house with different offices in it.  I’m interested in hearing why they tore it down.

Had this interesting little scene the other day…..Abby (far left) and Pinky are kinda enemies.  Weird to see both of them sitting so close together, with little innocent Mya between them:

Pinky is starting to grow a little tired of her hospital hat.  Mya tried it on but wasn’t too enthused:

Also not enthused was Boo when I pulled the covers off her noggin to take her pic:

Today’s symptoms: Feeling ok fatigue-wise today.  A little better than average, which was quite nice.  Since yesterday though I’ve been having pretty severe sensitivity of three of my fingers on my left hand.  This is usually an issue I have on the tops of my thighs, where just my pants against the skin feels like acid.  Never had it on my fingers before.  Had a little pep-talk with them and told them to quit their sensitivity silliness by the time I wake up tomorrow.

 

Pinky was busy tasting the rainbow:

That’s her favourite toy which I replace each Christmas.

And Boo in a self-made cave:

Peek-A-Boo!

Needless to say, it was a very quiet and relaxing weekend.  Mike was kind enough to stop by on Sunday and brought me some delicious turkey noms.  We also walked down to Tim Hortons – it was the first time I left the apartment since coming back from the hospital.  I was seriously starting to go stir crazy!

I’m feeling quite a bit better this week and was already back to work on Tuesday.  On Wednesday, Mike and I went to see Captain Philips with Tom Hanks.  It was awesome!  We then went over to Kelsey’s for dinner.  Slurp:

Came back to my place and Pinky was looking a little out of sorts.  What’s wrong, Pinky?  Missing something?

Ah, of course – I forgot about your NEW favourite toy:

Much better!  I’m going to have to go back to the hospital sometime and get some more hats for her!

Meanwhile, Boo did this:

Yes, my cats are weird.  At least little Abby was looking somewhat normal:

While at a pet store yesterday, I saw this oddity.  It’s a cat WITH fur:

Cute and felt so fluffy.  Speaking of which, Mike just sent me this adorable pic of one of his “weird, furred” kitties, sleeping with his friend:

While recovering, I was able to get through most of the book I was reading, which I mentioned in a previous blog:

I totally recommend reading this amazing book.  It was 973 pages of awesomeness.  I never wanted to put it down.  Can’t wait to read the next book, World Without End.

Today’s symptoms:  Kinda had quite a few yucky MS symptoms.  My fatigue level was average but I had a bad headache and some pretty severe crushing pains in three of my fingers and my left thigh.  Still dealing with a sinus infection, so that doesn’t help.

 

I know, you’re thinking the same thing I did when I first saw it: “There’s no way that isn’t a photograph!”  Well, it’s not!  It’s actually a pen drawing. 

The same day at work, I finished a book by one of my favourite authors, Anita Shreve.  My friend suggested I read this book:

It’s 973 pages and weighs about 27 pounds, so it’s quite a work out to lug it back and forth to work.  I’m only on page 129 but am quite enjoying it thus far.

It was my day off today and I took up someone I had recently taken up for an aerobatic flight.  He often rides his motorcycle to Port Dover during the Friday 13th motorcycle extravaganzas.  He thought it would be neat to see it from a new perspective.  Mike and I just drove through the town when we went to Long Point for camping a couple weeks ago.  I couldn’t believe how many more wind turbines there were compared to just a year ago:

Quite a few were under construction:

We flew over the Tim Hortons that Mike and I stopped in on the way to Long Point:

A shot of the town:

You can see some of the trees have already changed colour.

Flying back, we passed this Pepto Bismol looking body of water:

Back in St. Catharines:

It was a great flight.  Looks like this weekend isn’t going to be too accommodating for any other flights.  Bummer.

Had a doctor appointment on Wednesday and found out there was a surgical cancellation right when I walked in the door, so they were able to book my surgery.  Going to the nice, new St. Catharines hospital a week today.  At least I’ll have the long Thanksgiving weekend to recover!

Speaking of recovering, Boo is a monkey and was frantically running around the apartment for over an hour.  Looks like she wore herself out:

Pinky, on the other paw, seems ready to rock:

Not too sure where the other two goobers are at the moment.

Today’s symptoms: Felt quite good all day.  Been having crushing pains worse than normal in my forearms and hands for the last few days.  It’s not to the point where it prevents me from doing anything.  They hurt just as bad when I’m not doing anything to when I’m typing or driving.  Just gotz to deal with the pain – suck it up and carry on!

We were kinda happy to land in Brantford soon after passing over Hamilton, as coffee was seriously being craved.  As usual, Donkay joined us for the flight, as well as for breakfast:

Heading back over Hamilton, a West Jet flight had just landed and folks scurried off the plane:

Back over St. Catharines, the Grape and Wine parade was underway:

Montebello Park was set up for the concerts and other schtuff:

I’m lucky as I live downtown and get to hear all of the concerts going on at the park.  If the wind is just right, it sounds like they are just across the street.  Sweet!

Speaking of sweet, I was eating Jello with Cool Whip the other night and Abby decided she wanted to partake.  Here’s my view:

She was one happy kittah!

Tim Hortons just had their Smile Cookie fundraiser.  You can buy yummola smile cookies and all of the money goes to a charity in the region.  Mike kindly bought us some cookies to nom one night.  My first one was picture perfect:

Not too sure what happened with the second one:

Rather sad, but I guess we all have our flaws.

My little mother came to visit me this morning and the first thing we did was hit Timmies.  Since it was the final day for the Smile Cookie fundraiser, we figured we would make a contribution to a good cause:

After that, we hit Giant Tiger then back to my apartment.  Soon after she left, I headed back to the airport.  I took up a co-worker’s father for a flight.  It was a gift from her for his birthday.  He said he wanted to try some aerobatics so I demonstrated a loop and roll.  After that, we headed over the Falls then just around St. Catharines.  My favourite part of flying is taking people up and giving them a memorable experience!

Today’s symptoms: I feel so much better today than I did most of last week.  I had some severe fatigue, tons o’pain and generally felt flu-like.  So glad it’s over with. 

I stopped in at Mike’s, we loaded The Dude up and hit the road.  Less than two hours later, we arrived in Long Point.

First thing first, set up the main sleeping tent and dining shelter:

Our site was probably one of the best in the whole camp ground.  We were at the far end of the park with only one other site next to us and no one across from us.  The lake was about a fifteen second walk away and the bathroom only a couple minutes.

We took quite a few long walks along the beach:

Donkay joined us:

Clearly he missed my cat, Mya.

I did something I couldn’t believe – I’m quite arachnophobic but mustered up the courage to touch this yucky fella:

Also touched a daddy long legs – I hate those things!  Some of the other critters we met along the way were this cute and interesting looking caterpillar:

Another cute caterpillar, who I rescued from the beach by the water and moved him up to a tree:

An adorable baby snapping turtle:

And the ultimate – a huge praying mantis on the beach.  Mike looked at me a little funny when I started poking at it.  You can imagine his expression when I said “I’m going to hang it off my head!”

I thought it made a lovely hair accessory!

On Friday, Mike and I went into the nearby town, Port Rowan.  Kinda ironic since his new niece is named Rowan.

We wanted to stop somewhere for lunch and passed by the Sunrise Cafe:

I had a BBQ chicken sandwich, Mike had a burger and we split an order of poutine:

We were blown away at the yumminess of the food.  Mike’s burger was super juicy, my sandwich was delicious and the gravy on the fries was out of this world.  We couldn’t believe it.  We decided then and there that we would be going here again before we left for home (we did so on Sunday!)   They also had amazing desserts.  We ended up getting six, including nanaimo bars, brownies and butter tarts.  The owner boxed them up for us and asked if we had a big family.  “Nope, they’re for us!”  Oink, oink!  They were happily eaten over the next two days.

The weather was horrible on Saturday – non-stop rain and high winds.  Unfortunately during the night, the dining shelter was hit hard and three poles broke.  We’re now on the hunt for replacement poles:

We spent the entire day in the main tent.  I wasn’t feeling well, so the storm happened on a good day.

Sunday was much better weather-wise so Mike and I went for another long walk on the beach.  For some reason, I decided to do a little planking:

I nicked my hand on a rusty bit of metal on the fence wire during this one.  Was quite glad my tetanus shot is up to date!

Of course, I had to plank The Dude:

My mother is proud to have such a normal daughter.

Sunday night, we started up a fire and I introduced Mike to “piggies”:

What a perfect night for a fire, as it was getting quite chilly, dropping down to 8 degrees overnight:

It was a bit of a downer getting up today, knowing we were going back home.  We had such a great time and are already planning on going back next year.  We want the same site and will probably go around the first week of September.  Can’t wait!

It was quite nice to see my kittahs when I got home.  I really missed them.  I’m so grateful for my little mother looking after them while I was gone.  Thanks again, Janski!

Today’s symptoms:  Needless to say I’m very tired today.  Totally worth it though.  One thing I was experiencing quite a bit over the weekend was spasms during the night.  Felt bad for Mike cause I think I woke him up a few times.  Either just a limb would go into a spasm and sometimes it was my whole body.  I’ll certainly be bringing this up to my neurologist when I go to see him in a couple weeks.

 

…has a very similar paint colour and scheme to my Cessna 150 Aerobat:

We both loved the movie and will certainly be buying a copy when it comes out!

The other movie we saw was Elysium with Matt Damon – very good as well!  It was no longer playing here in Niagara so we went out to the theatre in Burlington.  Worth the drive.

The night we saw Elysium, we came back to my apartment and I decided to show Mike some of the outfits I bought for my kitties.  Not something I put them in for very long – just brief photo shoots.  Here’s a few pics from that night, which included some really cute hats my aunt made for the kittahs:

And of course, the infamous lobster outfit:

You can tell how enthused they all were!  Fortunately for them, it took less than a minute to get some good pics of each!

I put the Pinky lobster pic as my laptop wallpaper.  Mya wasn’t too impressed when she jumped up on it to check her email:

Little Pinky found the whole event to be a little too exhausting.  The next day, we found her out on the balcony:

Such a drama queen.

She wasn’t quite so relaxed when she was bathed last night.  Mya was the only one that didn’t need a bath.  The other three weren’t so lucky:

All survived and will be clean for another day.

Today’s symptoms: I seemed to have come down with something which started yesterday.  Feeling pretty lousy, but hopefully it won’t last too long.  As for my MS symptoms today, usual headache and aches and pains all over.  Nothing too major though!

I had everything in a bag to bring home.  After work today, I took everything out and tidied up a bit.  I almost died when I couldn’t find my shoe!  I literally spent hours tearing my whole apartment apart.  Mike was searching at home too.  I eventually looked behind the cat cubby next to the couch and I found Boo’s stash.  Holy Moses, smell the roses!  Check this out:

My little orange shoe!!!  I’m so happy!  Mind you, I realize now that my kittah has an issue.  Too bad the show Hoarders is no longer on – I have the perfect candidate for an episode!

The face of innocence?  I think not…

Anyway, back to the dinner at Mike’s.  As usual, his cats were being typical goobers.  Here’s little Sammy:

And of course, Coco, who loves to stare:

Little cuties.  The dinner his mom made was amazing (as her meals always are).  She made chocolate cake from scratch too:

Certainly went home with a full belly and a smile on my face.

Had my Tysabri infusion last week.  I met up with someone that was there in July, also getting her joyous infusion.  She said she watches me fly over the Walk for MS every year in Welland.  They have the largest team in Niagara:

Loved her tattoo:

Got to see this familiar plane on her iPad:

Sweet!!  So nice to meet her – hope to see her again next month!  Hoping she’ll join me for a flight some day too!

Mike and I went to a restaurant that I’ve wanted to go to for years now.  There is a Cora’s in Niagara Falls and St. Catharines.  I love fruit – this place is infamous for their amazing fruit creations.  Here are my breakfast noms:

And Mike’s:

Wow, the food was amazing.  I wouldn’t even hesitate to go back there again.  It was a huge breakkie but so healthy!

Today’s symptoms: Typical fatigue that kicked in around noon and steadily progressed.  Made it through the whole day at work though.  Just dealing with a bad headache, but that’s about it on the pain front today.  Yea!

I spritzed a window with Windex and put the vacuum to it.  Was I really seeing what I was seeing?  The window was perfectly clean and NO streaks!  I figured the lighting was just bad and I would try it again and see all of the streaks the next day.  Well, in full sunlight, the window was perfect.  The window vac is amazing – it actually took longer to put all of my windows back in the tracks than it did to clean them!  Thanks Jan and Syd!

Boo was pretty underwhelmed with my great news about my clean windows.  She just flopped on her back next to me, and proceeded to gnaw on her tail in this rather lewd pose:

Mike and I had a good weekend.  On Saturday, we flew the grueling nine minutes to Welland for a COPA breakfast.  About twenty planes flew in plus quite a few drove in.  Great attendance and a yummola breakkie.  The skydive club is now at the Welland Airport, so we all got to watch bodies tumble from the sky.

Kinda cool.  I did four jumps back when I was in the Army – quite fun!

After we flew back, I dropped Mike off and he set up the tripod and camera to video me doing some aerobatics.  They turned out pretty well but we need to tweak a few things.

On Sunday, Mike and I walked downtown and attended Buskerfest.  We stopped at Tim Hortons first where we could watch one of the performers:

He was on an insanely tall unicycle, spinning whips around that were lit on fire.  Crazy!

I saw something behind Mike that I knew was going to cause the biggest grin ever.  He LOVES cheesecake and the stand out front of Timmies had deep fried cheesecake.  Mike said he was going to get a donut and I said he might want to reconsider.  I then pointed out the sign behind him with the cheesecake.  Yup, game over!

We were both shocked at the size of the piece of cheesecake they dunked into the fryer – it was a full-sized piece!

I’m not a big cheesecake fan, but this was pretty good.  I had a couple little nibbles.  Slurp!

It was a really good weekend.  I have more flights planned next weekend, plus Mike and I will be flying out to a private runway near Fort Erie in two days for a monthly gathering.

Today’s symptoms:  After how fatigued I was yesterday, I was actually quite surprised how much better my energy was today.  Had really bad spasms in my calves though.  Bad timing – I walked all the way home from work and realized I forgot my keys.  Had to walk all the way back to work and home again.  Didn’t feel too good but it was good exercise!